Authorities in northwestern China\u2019s Xinjiang region are confiscating all Qurans published more than five years ago due to allegations of \u201cextremist content,\u201d according to local officials, amid an ongoing campaign against the so-called \u201cillegal\u201d religious items owned by mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghur residents.<\/p>\n
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Authorities in northwestern China\u2019s Xinjiang region are confiscating all Qurans published more than five years ago due to allegations of \u201cextremist content,\u201d according to local officials, amid an ongoing campaign against the so-called \u201cillegal\u201d religious items owned by mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghur residents.<\/p>\n
Village chiefs from Barin township, in Kashgar prefecture\u2019s Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, recently said that hundreds of the Islamic holy books printed before 2012 had been seized since authorities issued an order recalling them on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n
The Qurans were appropriated as part of the “Three Illegals and One Item\u201d campaign underway in Xinjiang that bans “illegal\u201d publicity materials, religious activities, and religious teaching, as well as items deemed by authorities to be tools of terrorism\u2014including knives, flammable objects, remote-controlled toys, and objects sporting symbols related to Islam, they said.<\/p>\n
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